Press Releases from National Press Office http://www.fbi.gov/fieldnews/breaking.htm Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:36:35 -0500 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:36:34 -0500 FeedForAll v2.0 (2.0.2.9) http://www.feedforall.com Jeffrey Lehrmann, a former New Orleans Police Department officer, pled guilty to covering up a deadly police shooting in the days after Hurricane Katrina. http://neworleans.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/no031010b.htm 8FD743BD-DA78-4A68-ACD7-19734326D412 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:29:51 -0500 Kent Joseph Gockel, of St. Marys, Kansas, was charged with stealing more than $890,000 from his mother's trust fund. http://kansascity.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/kc031110a.htm 2D20A4C1-25ED-441D-BF22-406A0CD55D82 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:19:35 -0500 Securities broker Lambros D. Ballas, of Long Island, New York, pled guilty in San Francisco, California to securities fraud in connection with fraudulently issuing press releases with the intent to temporarily and artificially inflate the stock of three companies. At the time, Ballas was a licensed securities broker who had worked in the industry for several years. http://sanfrancisco.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/sf031110.htm FBF41D6F-086B-44A9-A796-94796782BD77 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:13:04 -0500 Kimberly Perrin, of Hoover, Alabama, was sentenced to 30 months in prison for health care, wire, and tax fraud involving nearly $1.2 million she embezzled while working as comptroller for the Simon-Williamson Clinic in Birmingham. http://birmingham.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/bh031010.htm 5065E79C-29FD-4A93-A833-A18B64375441 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:09:15 -0500 Daniel Stephen and Patricia De Pons pled guilty in Miami to conspiracy to commit mail fraud in connection with a vacant land sale scheme that defrauded more than 1,000 victims out of $10.6 million. http://miami.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/mm031010a.htm C22EAD18-494B-4C94-AC28-65EB80E38F6A Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:04:31 -0500 Jesus Sandoval, of Dallas, pled guilty to taking lewd and lascivious photographs of a 13-year-old girl while she was in his custody and care at his home in Dallas. He also admitted that he took photographs of himself and the girl engaged in sexual positions, and that he had been sexually assaulting the girl for approximately three years. http://dallas.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/dl031010.htm 8BEBCD6F-B55D-4FB6-9703-49ADB3310EDD Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:54:46 -0500 Douglas James Duchak, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, was indicted on charges of attempting intentionally to damage a protected computer. The indictment alleges Duchak attempted to corrupt a Transportation Security Administration (TSA) database. http://denver.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/dn031010.htm C318D7DA-154D-48CE-9CCF-DAFE8165C590 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:51:14 -0500 Aaron B. Huddleston, of Muncie, Indiana, was sentenced to 84 months in prison following his guilty plea to transporting child pornography. http://indianapolis.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/ip031010.htm 2AB56FC3-D4D2-4CF7-AA3D-0BF45BD1D508 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:41:18 -0500 Frank Williams, Jr., of Pecos, Texas, a former food services employee at the Reeves County Detention Center, pled guilty to accepting bribes in exchange for smuggling contraband, including tobacco and cell phones, to prisoners. http://elpaso.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/ep031010a.htm 746433C6-14A3-4980-8383-C7A09B7A2C76 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:37:19 -0500 Fernando Ontiveros-Arambula Manuel Chavez-Betancourt, both of whom have ties to the Sinaloa drug cartel, were convicted in El Paso, Texas in connection with a conspiracy to smuggle over 100 tons of marijuana from Mexico into the United States. http://elpaso.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/ep031010.htm 88AB3AE1-1A04-4878-9A51-B4D00404E193 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:32:34 -0500 A man who owned and operated numerous now-defunct Nevada investment companies, and two of his former employees, were indicted in Las Vegas on mortgage fraud charges. http://lasvegas.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/lv031010.htm 6CCF643F-A29F-4EE0-9CD7-7E8082F735AE Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:29:33 -0500 Fabian Fransisco Spears, of Crosby, Minnesota, pled guilty to sexually abusing his two great-nieces, both of whom were under the age of 12, on the Red Lake Indian Reservation on more than one occasion. http://minneapolis.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/mp031010.htm 34D5F984-43EE-4961-9980-FB1569924E8E Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:20:38 -0500 A chiropractor, a medical doctor, and a billing employee at a clinic owned by the chiropractor in Maywood, Illinois were indicted on federal health care fraud charges in connection with allegedly illegally submitting false claims totaling more than $1 million to obtain payments from workers' compensation and other insurers for services that were not provided and for inflated claims for services that were provided. http://chicago.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/cg031110.htm 5E74B9C7-33FD-41D8-A2FF-CCA03DE98585 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:17:30 -0500 Ernesto A. Martin, an inmate at the Federal Correctional Institution at Estill, South Carolina, was indicted by a federal grand jury for assault with intent to commit murder within the Institution. http://columbia.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/co031110.htm 82ED4E4E-B002-49F9-BCFD-3A2DD8AE4C0C Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:12:59 -0500 William Scott Nelson, of Pearland, Texas, was indicted on six counts related to the production, possession, and attempted distribution of child pornography. http://houston.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/ho031110.htm 91EBDDCE-D4DA-478F-9E56-73BC440346A3 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:06:53 -0500 Jeff Henry Williamson, of Jackson, Mississippi was found guilty by a federal jury in Houston, Texas of sending a threatening communication in interstate commerce. http://houston.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/ho031010.htm FD90D0DB-86B5-4BEB-8C38-EF996793DE3C Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:02:21 -0500 Dmarcus Antwain Ward, of Minden, Louisiana, was arrested and arraigned in Atlanta, Georgia on federal charges of sex trafficking of minors and transporting his minor victims in interstate commerce for purposes of prostitution. http://atlanta.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/at031010.htm B22FFF84-125A-48ED-A93A-0E87492E0575 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:55:23 -0500 John N. Milne, of Westport, Connecticut, was sentenced to 27 months in prison for conspiring to falsify the books and records of United Rentals, Inc. while he served as its chief financial officer. http://newhaven.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/nh031110.htm 40ADD094-E516-4C99-9DEE-74A39E6E521D Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:35:53 -0500 Southanome Frichitavong, of Euless, Texas, the 28th and final defendant in a drug-trafficking conspiracy, was sentenced in Kansas City, Missouri for his role in distributing hundreds of thousands of ecstasy pills, worth approximately $2 million, in Jackson County. http://kansascity.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/kc031110.htm E863C3D1-9484-41FE-BFE4-968CC11EE332 Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:31:24 -0500 Three Kansas City, Missouri men, a Parkville, Missouri man, and two businesses in Arizona and Costa Rica were indicted by a federal grand jury for operating an illegal gambling business that relied on a website with a computer server located in Costa Rica. http://kansascity.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/kc031010.htm 855B38FF-1716-433C-819E-172448FFFE3E Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:28:51 -0500 Tammy L. Morgan, of Warren, Ohio, was indicted for allegedly executing a scheme to defraud Home Savings Bank of nearly $30,000 by fraudulently obtaining monies, funds, credits, assets, securities, and other property owned by the bank. http://cleveland.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/cl031010.htm 3B4B4C08-BBFD-4E19-80BF-17FEF35889DC Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:26:05 -0500 Jersey City police officer Brian Ragauckas, of Secaucus, New Jersey,was arrested on a charge of bank fraud in connection with a $529,777 mortgage loan that he obtained through false representations to the former Countrywide Bank FSB. http://newark.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/nk031010.htm 8F88750A-CF57-4E4C-A2A0-A42212D8971C Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:15:30 -0500 Rhonda L. Breard, a former Kirkland, Washington investment advisor, was charged with mail fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud dozens of clients out of millions of dollars. http://seattle.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/se031010.htm F056206F-7936-47CC-AA74-BD82B90812D2 Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:03:13 -0500 James Keith Labuff, of Browning, Montana, pled guilty to his role in the armed robbery of a Subway restaurant on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation. http://saltlakecity.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/slc031010.htm 4B310089-26DF-46CE-98F2-22BCFBE1CDE2 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:30:38 -0500 Monica Conyers, of Detroit, Michigan, was sentenced to 37 months in prison as a result of her guilty plea to one count of conspiracy to commit bribery. http://detroit.fbi.gov/dojpressrel/pressrel10/de031010a.htm 26B9A87E-34CF-4743-9E1E-1B72287074D3 Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:23:37 -0500